A first principles exploration of a variety of active surfaces and catalytic sites in Ziegler-Natta heterogeneous catalysis

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 105, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 5096-5105

  Boero, Mauro ^b,d   Parrinello, Michele ^a   Weiss, Horst ^c   Hüffer, Stephan ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b JT RES CENTER FOR ATOM TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

^d MPI FKF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; CHEMICAL RELAXATION; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMERIZATION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

ACTIVE SURFACES; CATALYTIC SITES;

CATALYSIS;

EID: 0035979115     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp010780d     Document Type: Article

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